Legal Opinion
Jim Hutton Educ. Found., Non-Profit Corp. v. Kev (In Re Rein)
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided May 21, 2018No. Supreme Court Case 17SA5PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
JUSTICE BOATRIGHT delivered the Opinion of the Court.
¶ 1 The Jim Hutton Foundation ("Foundation") owns surface-water rights in the Republican River Basin. It believes that permitted groundwater wells that people have begun to install in the underlying groundwater basin-the Northern High Plains Basin ("NHP Basin")-are not in fact pumping designated groundwater, and are therefore injuring its senior surface-water rights. So the Foundation seeks legal redress, hoping to ultimately alter the groundwater basin's boundaries to exclude any improperly permitted designated-groundwater wells.
¶ 2 Our…
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